Roskosmos will invite tourists to space launch and ISS – Newspaper Work

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17:52 7 September 2015.

Published 17:52 7 September 2015.

According to the management of the corporation, people should be allowed to watch the launch of the spacecraft

Guide Russian Space Agency, which has recently been transformed into a public corporation, an interest in the development of a new field – the organization of tourist trips to the space launch, according to “Izvestia».

As the official representative of the company Igor Bourenkov in the near future Federal Space Agency is going to develop a special system that allows you to organize a sort of tourist network on the basis of Baikonur and the East.

Analysts say that to go to a tourist trip to Baikonur and now you can, but it is very expensive. Internet agency asking for a week-long trip that includes sightseeing and watching the launch of the rocket, about 330 thousand rubles per person.

«Who excursions spaceports is, they are not organized systematically, and in a single order for contracts with the companies involved in the service starts “, – explained Bourenkov.

On the importance of” space “of tourism in its ground form, said recently Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. “People want to see the process of launching the spacecraft,” – he said during a visit to the construction cosmodrome “East».

Also in 2018 Roskosmos intends to come to grips with and delivering wanting to get into space orbit. With space tourism agency is going to compensate for the financial losses of a broken contract with NASA for the delivery of astronauts to the ISS. Currently, the cost of delivery of each astronaut on the International Space Station and its subsequent return to Earth is about 76 million dolllarov.